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Who's in charge? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (11 children)

To own something is to control it.

You clearly don't have control, therefore you don't own it, microsoft does. You can fix that by seizing the means of computation and install linux.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Just to have linux be even more ruthless with its permission schemes.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    When you switch to an admin account on Windows, there are still files owned by "TrustedInstaller" that you can't touch, and processes owned by "System" that you can't terminate.

    Linux doesn't have that. When you switch to root, you can kill any process. You can modify or delete any file.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    Sometimes (often?) at your own peril!

    To anyone else following, if you're mucking around with "I am Root/Admin. OBEY ME!!" you had better have important data backed up!

    I once thought an unlisted BTRFS snapshot was an orphan folder taking up space. No permission? Nonsense! Obey my commands!

    Suddenly not even terminal commands worked. ("Command 'cd'/'ls'/whatever not found")

    . . . it was the "writable snapshot" currently mounted, and the system was so borked it couldn't rollback, and I needed to completely reinstall.

    Fortunately I had things backed up on another drive. Live and learn! But that could have been TRAGIC.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What the hell are you talking about? Permissions issues in Windows have absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft owning your files.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm not talking about just the files. I'm talking more generally.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's a weird stance to take since the discussion was about file permissions, and there are absolutely ways around Windows protecting system files just like there are ways around Linux doing the same thing.

    There are many reasons to criticize Microsoft, but making it difficult for users to fuck up system files isn't one of them. Most users are of the "it's a box filled with magic smoke" variety, and they need to be protected from themselves.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Or just ... right click to change ownership...

    You don't have to change your whole OS because you can't access a file. I thought you Linux users knew how to use technology properly. But it seems you are "power users" instead.

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